The provider roadmap outlines the key steps in launching the RPM program-from technology integration to cooperation best practices
Plano, Texas, June 22, 2021/PRNewswire/-Vivify Health, the developer of the leading connected care platform for remote patient care in the United States, announced the release of a new white paper, “Building Successful Remote Patients The key to the monitoring plan”. “Changing regulations, pandemics, and innovative technological solutions are prompting more health systems and hospitals to initiate or restart remote patient monitoring programs (RPM) in 2021. The white paper provides important insights into this new RPM revolution , Outlines the best practices for rolling out a plan, including making informed technical decisions, selecting partners based on the correct indicators, and ensuring that the plan will deliver quality and fully reimbursed.
RPM is a one-to-many technology in which a clinician can monitor the health of multiple patients at the same time. This monitoring can happen continuously through daily snapshots or other frequencies. RPM is mainly used to manage chronic diseases. It is also used in other situations, such as before and after surgery, high-risk pregnancy, and behavioral health, weight management, and medication management programs.
Vivify’s white paper explores the history of remote patient monitoring, its major transformation in the past year, and why providers now see it as an attractive long-term solution for caring for large patient populations.
Although RPM and telemedicine have been used as early as the 1960s, even with the recent widespread use of broadband Internet and the tremendous advances in medical monitoring technology, they have not been fully utilized. The reasons boil down to the lack of provider support, government and commercial payers’ reimbursement barriers, and a challenging regulatory environment.
However, in 2020, both RPM and telemedicine have undergone drastic changes due to the urgent need to safely treat and manage large numbers of patients at home during the global pandemic. During this period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial health plans relaxed reimbursement rules to include more telemedicine and RPM services. Medical institutions quickly realized that deploying an RPM platform can improve organizational efficiency, ensure compliance, reduce unnecessary emergency visits, and improve the quality of care. Therefore, even if the surge related to COVID-19 has subsided and medical offices and beds are open, many medical institutions continue to pursue and even expand their plans that they initiated during the pandemic.
The white paper guides readers through the subtle but critical nuances of starting an RPM program and provides seven basic building blocks for achieving early success and a sustainable long-term approach. They include:
The paper also includes a case study of the Deaconess Health System in Evansville, Indiana, which was an early adopter of RPM. The health system includes 11 hospitals with 900 beds, replacing its traditional RPM system with advanced technological solutions, and halving the 30-day readmission rate of its RPM population within the first year after it went live.
About Vivify Health Vivify Health is an innovative leader in connected healthcare delivery solutions. The company’s cloud-based mobile platform supports the overall remote care management through personalized care plans, biometric data monitoring, multi-channel patient education, and functions configured for each patient’s unique needs. Vivify Health serves the largest and most advanced health systems, healthcare organizations, and employers in the United States—enable clinicians to proactively manage the complexity of remote care and promote employees through a single platform solution for all devices and digital health data Health and productivity. The comprehensive platform with rich content and turnkey workflow services enable suppliers to intuitively expand and maximize the value of different groups of people. For more information about Vivify Health, please visit www.vivifyhealth.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit our company blog to access case studies, thought leadership and news.
Post time: Jul-14-2021